The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-09
SOME BIG SALARIES.
ros.ax Coa,a,s New York Letter.

ne Ol OlIC Of S<a1 took novice into his office one day. may go on the reportorial staff," he said to him. ''It has been my experience that money, women and choice foods make capital news paper stories. Whenever you can get a story in which money plays an inn portant part you have an article that will be read with interest"
 So what follows is all about money, and the well-known New Workers whose nimble fingers chase the elusive dollar, or rather thousands of them sach year.
 There are a score of men in New York who are paid as much for their services each year as the president of the United States. Forty thousand dollars a year is very tidy salary. There are hundreds of men who get S25.00O year salary, and the number who get from Sl0,o00 to S20,000 are legion.
 Very ordinary men get from 5000 to SS,000 year, or as much as cabl- net officer. Dr. Norvin Green, presi- dent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, is paid S50,000. So is Chauncy NJ. Depew, president of the New York Central railroad. Richard M. McCurdy, president of the Mu- tual Life Insurance company, gets like amount. John Hoey, president of Adams Express company, fares equally as we'll. President Henry B. Hyde, of the Equitable Life Insurance company, is also in the list. George W. Williams, president of the Chemi- cal National Bank, the richest banking institution in America, with nearly S5,000,00 of surplus, S2o,o00,00o average deposits, is paid a salary of S25. .000 yearly. President Potts of the Park Bank, and President Tappan of the Gallatin National Bank, receive like sum each twelve months.
 The best paid minister in New York is Dr. John Hall, brainy man from the north of Ireland, who breaches to S2OO, O,000,00o every Sun day. His is the smallest church in town. He owes his rise in life to Robert Bonner of the Ledger. who found him preaching to small con gregation in Dublin and induced him to come to America. He gets salary of $2O ,000 year and makes 5000 by his newspaper and magazine articles. He is given a luxuriously furnished house as well. Dr. Morgan Dix, the chief pastor of Trinity church corpo- ration, the wealthiest in America, re- ceives ,000 yearly. Dr. Vim. NJ. Taylor of the Broadway Tabernacle, gets the same amount. He does lit erary work and featuring that brings his income up to S20,000. Dr. Charles Hall of the Fifth Avenue Presbyte rian church is paid Sl5,000. He is very eloquent, and his church is crowded at all services. Dr. Park hurst of Madison Square church gets S12,000. He has large and distin- guished congregation. Cyrus W. Field is one of the pillars of the church. pr. Paxton, who breaches to Jay Gould and others less wealthy, is paid S15,000. Rev. Robert Collier, the blacksmith preacher. is paid s10.000.
 Of the editors Mir. Stone of the Journal of Commerce is paid $20,000. He is the president of the Associated Press, immensely wealthy, lives in Brooklyn, and has mania for choice flowers and plants; his collection is worth over s250, ,O00. Charles A. Dana, editor of the Sun, is paid S15,000 salary, but he is also a large stock holder in the paper, and his income from this source is quite S100,000. Before the paper began to decline the sum was nearly $20o,000. Whitelaw Reid, chief owner of the Tribune, pays himself nearly s12,000 yearly. He has been very fortunate in speculation, and is said to be worth over S1 ,0o0,- 00O. His wife, daughter of D. O. Mills, has a fortune of half that sum in her own name Dl. George H. Hepworth, who was at one time a great pulpit orator. now chief of the Herad staff, is paid S12, 2,0oO yearly by James Gordon Bennett. Julius Cham bers, the managing editor of the same paper, receives &10.OO0. Charles R. Miller, the real editor of the New York Times, gets S10.000 year. He has several assistants in editorial writ ing, who get from S4,0o0 to S7 900. John c. Reid, the managing editor of the paper, gets ss,0o0, and Harold Frederic, the London correspondent, S5,000. Colonel John A. Ccckerill, managing editor of the World, gets S15,OOO yearly. He also gets small share of the profits of the paper, mak- ing in all $2O,OO0 yearly. George W. Turner, the publisher of the same pa- per, makes s2O,0O0 yearly. George William Curtis is paid s10,O00 yearly for editing Hayper's Weekly. He does not do much work, and for days at a time he does not go near the office. He lives in delightful ease in great big roomy house on Staten Island. NnunliS& Hnxrallr is r,aid alA QA0 for